Nine-year-old Donald Cook knew he had to react quickly as the fire engulfed the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus big top in Hartford on July 6, 1944, known as one of the most devastating ...
The Hartford Circus Fire was one of the worst mass casualty fires ever in the United States, killing 21 more people than the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and 72 more than the Our Lady of the ...